This article was originally featured on MIT Press Reader. This article is excerpted from Chris French’s book “The Science of Weird Shit.” There is a hidden cause behind a fun little demonstration of ...

In Mental Radio* Upton Sinclair described a great number of experiments in which Mrs. Sinclair as “percipient” seemed to have telepathic powers. He would draw six or more pictures on separate sheets ...

In 1927, long before the age of smartphones and smartwatches, a group of British scientists decided to test whether telepathy—the ability to transmit thoughts from one person to another—could be real.

For the past four years the band have been conducting parapsychological experiments based upon the classic Ganzfeld (“total field”) experiment, but with a twist: instead of sending and receiving ...